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Lettres à Émilie sur la mythologie

Illustrated by: Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune (French, 1741–1814)
Engraved by: Remi Henri Joseph Delvaux (French, 1748/50–1823)
Engraved by: Emmanuel Jean Nepomucène de Ghendt (Flemish, worked in France, 1738–1815)
Engraved by: Barthélemy Joseph Fulcran Roger (French, 1767–1841)
Engraved by: N. Thomas (French, about 1750–about 1812)
Engraved by: Jean Baptiste Simonet (French, 1742–1813)
Engraved by: Philippe Trière (French, 1756–about 1815)
Portrait(s) designed by: Jacques Augustin Pajou (French, 1766–1828)
Engraved by: Pierre Alexandre Tardieu (French, 1756–1844)
Author: Charles Albert Demoustier (French, 1760–1801)
Publisher: Antoine Augustin Renouard (French, 1765–1853)
1809
Place of Publication: Paris, France

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 37 etching and engravings
Dimensions Overall (each vol.): 20.2 x 13.4 x 3.6 cm (7 15/16 x 5 1/4 x 1 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession Number37.1389a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Paris: Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1809

Catalogue Raisonné Cohen-de Ricci 283
Description(Paris: Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1809) Octavo, six parts in two vols.; [pt. 1] viii, 143 pp., plus 7 plates; [pt. 2] 128 pp., plus 6 pls.; [pt. 3] 104 pp., plus 6 pls.; [pt. 4] 107 pp., plus 6 pls.; [pt. 5] 116 pp., plus 6 pls.; [pt. 6] 148 pp., plus 6 pls.; contemporary gilt- and blind-stamped brown morocco.

Mythological illustrations, author portrait.
ProvenanceAcquired in 1906 from A. Prath & P. Maynier, Paris, by William A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.